Third mass protest for Gaza in a month in London

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched along Oxford street, to the US embassy
and on to Hyde Park

6:14PM BST 09 Aug 2014

Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday, demanding Britain take a tougher line against Israel over its military assault on Gaza.

The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign said 150,000 people attended the march, the third major demonstration for Gazain London in the past four weeks.

Protesters packed the main shopping artery of Oxford Street, marching to the US embassy and on to Hyde Park, many of them chanting "Free, Free Palestine" and holding up banners saying "UK - Stop Arming Israel".

The first two protests attracted at least 10,000 people each, according to police, although organisers said it was more like 50,000 each time. Police declined to give a number for Saturday's event.

Lindsey German, convenor of Stop the War Coalition, an umbrella group of NGOs, said: "The level of anger is unprecedented.